Mark McGwire's own brother says Big Mac knew power benefits of steroids

Admitted steroid user Mark McGwire has been blind-sided by criticism ever since he went public with his steroid past last month and said he used performance-enhancing drugs only for health purposes.
From Hall of Famer Carlton Fisk to former Cardinals slugger Jack Clark to Budweiser scion Adolphus A. Busch IV, McGwire has been verbally skewered. But his sharpest critic is his brother, Jay McGwire, a former bodybuilder, who said in an ESPN interview that there is no question the former single-season home run king's slugging prowess was helped by performance-enhancing drugs.
"(Mark) knows that he (was) getting stronger and bigger, come on," Jay McGwire told ESPN. "He is coming across that it is only for health reasons, but he put on 30 pounds of lean muscle mass. That is why a lot of people don't understand why he is not really coming out clean like that. Why not just admit it all? It is OK. Everyone knows how powerful these drugs are."
Jay McGwire's book, "Mark and Me: Mark Mc-Gwire and the Truth Behind Baseball's Worst-Kept Secret," is set for release Monday. It details how the younger McGwire supplied the slugger with steroids in the early '90s, when Mark McGwire morphed into a baseball behemoth.
McGwire, who played for the A's and Cardinals and socked a then-record 70 homers in 1998, is the St.Louis hitting coach. Jay McGwire said in the ESPN interview that he finds it hard to believe that his brother couldn't recall the names of the steroids he took throughout his career and that McGwire's long-time manager Tony La Russa was oblivious to Big Mac's steroid use until last month's public admission.
"Man, I don't want to put words in his mouth," McGwire said, referring to La Russa. "But come on, you're around sports. Are you kidding me? You have to know something is going on."

what do they think Tony Larussa is suppose to do...turn mark in, maybe in the perfect world...Otherwise he didn't care how he was hitting them out of the park...steroids or not.

Mark and his brother Jay

Yeah. I needed that assurance from McGuire's brother to make me believe that it helped, and I really need to buy that new book.

As for LaRussa, he should have STFU about it. The Cardinals trashed the reporter who wrote about the Andro, so they shouldn't play stupid now. The Cards and LaRussa are as guilty as McGuire.

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Mark McGwire insists he didn't need to use performance-enhancing drugs to hit 70 home runs, telling The Athletic in an interview published Monday that he would have accomplished that feat without help.
"Absolutely," McGwire said. "I just know myself. I just know. I was a born home run hitter. I mean, unfortunately, I did [take PEDs]. And I've regretted that. I've talked about that. I regretted it. I didn't need to. That's the thing. Didn't need to."
As a slugger for the St. Louis Cardinals, McGwire hit 70 home runs in 1998, setting a single-season record. Twelve years later, he admitted in a televised interview with Bob Costas that he was using PEDs when he set the mark.
McGwire, a bench coach for the San Diego Padres, now says he could have hit those home runs without PEDs.
"Deep down inside, I know me as a hitter," McGwire said. "And I know what I did in that box. And I know how strong my mind is. And I know what kind of hitter I became."
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"There wasn't anything going on [to keep the sport clean]," McGwire said. "The game has done a terrific job of doing what they're doing now. I commend them for doing it. I think we all wish [testing] went on when we had played. But unfortunately, it didn't."

That whole era was infested with PED's. Seems like hitters get 90% of the scrutiny, but I wonder how many pitchers were juiced up too (besides Clemens)?

Mark McGwire.....All 70 HR's in 1998.